Girls sent home from school over short skirts

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Nicola WoolcockEducation Correspondent

Published at 12:01AM, June 19 2014

More than 250 girls at a secondary school were removed from lessons or sent
home because their skirts were too short.

Rory Fox, the head teacher of Ryde Academy, on the Isle of Wight, said that
the strict uniform code was to prepare pupils for the world of work.

Teachers at the academy took girls aged 11 to 18 out of their classrooms and
placed them in an isolated hall. Others were sent home to change because
their trousers were “too tight” and did not fit with the school’s policy.
Dozens of boys were sent home for turning up without

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